PokerStars announced on Tuesday that it has received a license to operate its online casino and poker room in the Czech Republic, the first site to do so under the country’s new gaming laws. The license was granted January 28th and PokerStars.cz should be ready to go within the next few days. “We are very… Read more »
Time to pack it in. The only hurdle left for computers to overcome in order to take over the Earth is sentience. This week, the Libratus Poker AI, developed by Tuomas Sandholm and Noam Brown at Carnegie Mellon University, completed a total destruction of four professional poker players in heads-up No-Limit Hold’em. This comes just… Read more »
The World Poker Tour got back in action over the weekend as the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event saw its two starting days contested on Sunday and Monday. Players are still allowed to register through the first break on Day 2, so we won’t know the official tournament figures for a little while… Read more »
If you play online poker or have at least been keeping up with poker news, you know that over the last few years, online poker rooms and networks have made a concerted effort to make their games more appealing to recreational players by implementing features that strip away advantages from professionals (aside from actual poker… Read more »
Coming into the final table with a sizeable chip lead, Shurane Vijayaram rode that stack to battle the second biggest chip stack to start the day – that of Ben Heath – for the championship of the 2017 Aussie Millions Main Event. In the end, that advantageous stack played to Vijayaram’s advantage in his eventual… Read more »
In a rather rapid final table of five hours, Nick Petrangelo got his 2017 tournament poker season off to a good start by outlasting Mike Watson and Fedor Holz to win the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge on Saturday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. Steffen Sontheimer was the leader of the event with 451,000 in… Read more »
In a highly contentious vote, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Senate voted to classify poker as a “game of skill.” The future of the Senate bill? That is unknown, but it opens the doors for a plethora of outcomes. The vote in the Senate was as close as you can get. After the polling was complete,… Read more »
Six days of competition have taken the Aussie Millions Main Event from its original field of 725 players all the way to the final table and the seven men who will contend for the title. On Sunday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Shurane Vijayaram will come back with a massive lead over a field… Read more »
After a bit of a fitful start, the $100,000 Challenge got off the ground earlier this week at the 2017 Aussie Millions. On Saturday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, the final seven men will return to action to determine a champion in the tournament. This event was supposed to have coincided with the start… Read more »
Just in time for everyone to make their plans, officials of Caesars Entertainment have announced the official schedule for the 48th Annual World Series of Poker. Once again to be held at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, this year’s schedule will run from May 30 to July 17 and offer whatever… Read more »
Facing increased competition from surrounding states, the Commonwealth of Virginia appears to be slowly making its way toward legalizing at least some sort of brick-and-mortar gambling. On Monday, a bill which would legalize poker and authorize the regulation of poker tournaments passed through committee. The bill will likely be voted upon this week. The bill,… Read more »
The 372 survivors from the three starting flights of the 2017 Aussie Millions Main Event came together on Wednesday for Day 2 at the Crown Melbourne casino. Seven more players registered before the end of the first level, bringing the grand total number of entries to 725, just shy of last year’s 732. Riding the… Read more »
The Las Vegas Sands Corp., headed by online poker’s top enemy, Sheldon Adelson, has agreed to pay a $6.96 million criminal penalty to settle a federal case in which the government was investigating the company’s potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The issue at hand stems back nearly seven years to 2010,… Read more »
The last of the three starting flights of the 2017 Aussie Millions Main Event was completed early Wednesday morning at Crown Casino Melbourne. With another 322 players taking to the felts, the three-day total is now up to 718 registrants. It does not look like the 2008 record of 780 players, but with registration open… Read more »
As a Georgian for 18 years now (dear lord, I’ve lived here a long time), I have never been able to play poker in a proper casino without flying across the country or driving several hours to a neighboring state. No, this hasn’t ruined my life or anything – I can do without just fine… Read more »
I always feel a little odd writing something about a poker tournament that is taking place in Australia. Living on the east coast of the United States, it is currently the middle of the morning on Monday, January 23rd, but in Melbourne, Australia, home of the Aussie Millions, poker players are (hopefully) tucked away in… Read more »
One of the most popular poker events that isn’t the part of a major tournament “tour” or schedule – the Aussie Millions – has been underway for the past few days. On Sunday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, the $10,000 buy in Main Event took to the stage with the first of three-Day Ones… Read more »
Others in the poker media have been reporting that the perpetrator of the Borgata “Chipgate” scandal from 2014, Christian Lusardi, has been released from prison. A little legwork from a valued member of the poker journalism community – and confirmed by this writer – shows that Lusardi is indeed still incarcerated in federal prison. Reports… Read more »
Although they have ceased operations as a “cable television station,” Poker Central still exists as a streaming outlet online. With this in mind, the online site is moving forward with their seminal event, the Super High Roller Bowl, which will follow in much the same manner as last year’s tournament. From May 28-31 (just prior… Read more »
It is early in the 2017 poker calendar, so there have been few things that have grasp the attention of the poker world. There’s discussion as to whether the PokerStars Caribbean…whoops!…the PokerStars Championship Bahamas was a success or not (when you have a premier high roller in Paul Newey dissing the offering, you might have… Read more »
At the halfway mark of the rematch between professional poker players and a poker-playing computer program, the program – known as “Libratus” – is drubbing the professionals in a Pennsylvania casino. As the two sides prepare to enter the ninth day of competition, “Libratus” (programmed by the computer scientists at the Carnegie Mellon School of… Read more »
The PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) began Monday and will stuff 65 tournaments into just a dozen days through January 29th. There will be $15 million in prize pool guarantees, $2.5 million of which will be in the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event on the final day of the 2017 TCOOP. PokerStars sought… Read more »
On Monday, Antigua and Barbuda Governor-General Sir Rodney Williams announced that legislation will soon be introduced that will allow his country to collect on the judgment awarded to it by the World Trade Organization (WTO) in response to the United States’ negative stance on internet poker years ago. Antigua and Barbuda has been issuing online… Read more »
The World Series of Poker continues to trickle out details of the schedule for this year’s WSOP. Last week, the schedule what the WSOP calls its “flagship weekend anchor events” was announced. The 2017 WSOP will run May 30th through July 17th, meaning that there are six weekends available during the Series. It appears that… Read more »
The NFL is down to its final four teams: the Pittsburgh Steelers face the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game and MY Green Bay Packers will head down to Atlanta to take on the Falcons in the NFC Championship Game. Up until Sunday night, when the Packers and Steelers won games that went… Read more »
